On today’s episode: Genes might exist outside chromosomes The dramatic story of the time Voyager 1 stopped sending us messages, and how a crack team of NASA engineers figured out how to fix it. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft | Financial Times
• Liquid water found on Mars
• Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome—Do We? | Columbia University Irving Medical Center

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Hybrid swarms are causing extinctions… and we’re one of them! Why do we play? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• https://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-people-evolve.html
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/play-may-be-a-deeper-part-of-human-nature-than-we-thought/
• https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.aax4705
• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/child-psychology-and-psychiatry-review/article/abs/development-of-play-during-childhood-forms-and-possible-functions/65657B6446A0BF84BB8BFC238CA09B8D
• https://cms.learningthroughplay.com/media/esriqz2x/role-of-play-in-childrens-development-review_web.pdf
• https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(14)01333-5.pdf
• https://cms.learningthroughplay.com/media/esriqz2x/role-of-play-in-childrens-development-review_web.pdf
• https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12205
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax4705
• https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=VBviEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=developmental+role+of+play+in+humans&ots=I1zODghrkh&sig=SeYm8jqwJKxvX4DP_l-VOJWr5Pk#v=onepage&q=developmental%20role%20of%20play%20in%20humans&f=false

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Making hydrogen gas out of soda cans and coffee grounds. Bird flu has been making its way into farm animals. Should we be worried? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine | MIT News
• As egg prices soar, the deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history drags on
• Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu
• Bird flu flare: Cattle in 5 states now positive as Texas egg farm shuts down
• H5Na Bird Flue Detections Across the United States in Backyard and Commercial Poultry
• Current H5N1 Bird Flu Situation in Dairy Cows | CDC

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: We finally know what the woolly mammoth’s DNA looked like! Can cloud seeding cause major weather events? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Wooly Mammoth DNA in 3D
• https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00642-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424006421%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584255/
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240711111343.htm
• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drying-woolly-mammoth-dna-3d-glass
• https://x.com/jrotwitguez/status/1811423817069404468?t=cmk6ncJYQJsVtBx39LEezA&s=19

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Do people with glasses see a wholly different world? 99 NASA balloons floating telescopes in the summer sky. How do fungal spores know it’s time to start growing? How do neutron stars and black holes squeeze that much stuff into one place? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/fungal-spore-germination#:~:text=Spore%20germination%20is%20a%20preliminary,factors%20that%20aid%20spore%20germination
• https://time.com/6292311/fungal-spores-pathogens-essay/

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: What’s the deal with salty tears? Why do we gain so much weight when we’re on vacation? What does saliva have to do with vomiting? How do snails get their shells? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• The Lacrimal Gland
• https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/the-mysterious-science-of-motion-sickness/385469/
• https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-we-drool-before-being-sick
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780323672931000086
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/hypersalivation
• https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/why-do-we-salivate-when-were-nauseous-880551
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987796/

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Some ants know when to save the leg and when to amputate. If you snip off a taste bad will you ever taste that taste again? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Call the ant doctor: Amputation gives injured ants a leg up on infections | Ars Technica

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Gray whales are getting smaller, and scientists aren’t really sure why. And we talk about what sci-fi has missed in its predictions over the decades. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
• Mountain-size 'planet killer' asteroid will make a close approach to Earth today
  • VIDEO
•  These Gray Whales Are Shrinking, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Clouds of dust in space may have changed our ancestors’ climate and night sky. If you know where to look this summer, then you can see a star exploding! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• AI might run out of reading material soon
• The Solar System May Have Passed through Dense Interstellar Cloud 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth’s Climate
• Our Not-So-Super Nova
• https://www.cnet.com/science/get-ready-to-see-a-sky-explosion-that-only-happens-once-every-80-years/
• https://earthsky.org/tonight/in-a-dark-sky-look-for-the-northern-crown/
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova#:~:text=All%20observed%20novae%20involve%20white,RNe)%2C%20and%20dwarf%20novae.

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Neuralink isn’t the only company putting computer chips into brains… And we examine the tangled complexity of the Wood Wide Web. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Precision, the Brain Computer Interface company started by a former Neuralink employee
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/14/trees-fungi-share-messages-resources/
• https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/
• https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/mycorrhizal-networks-wood-wide-web
• https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/18/Detangling-Debate-Wood-Wide-Web/
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1#Sec12

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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